Will We Ever Be Able To Predict Earthquakes?
Blog by:Ben,Brayden and Markus
Scientists have tried many different things to predict earthquakes but none of have been successful so far. They have a pretty good idea of when they will hit but they still don’t have a geat idea of when it’ll happen.
However the probability of a future earthquake happening can be calculated, based 0n the data that scientist have collected, they predicted that 30yrs frm now San Francisco will have a major earthquake, about 67% sure that it will be likely to happen.
We have found that we can test for vibration underneath the earth’s surface and find it but only moments before and earthquake will actually happen, not giving us enough time to escape, scientist have been drilling down about 800ft to test the vibration of the ground, that way they can somewhat predict if one will happen they just don’t know when it will happen or how big it will be.
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Here are some different ways scientist predict earthquakes
Earthquakes Prediction methods
-unusual animal behavior
-water level in wells
-seismic electric signals
-radon emission
-foreshocks or minor shocks before a major earthquake
-statistical probability
-putting lazzers across a fault to detect any small movements
-monitoring water levels
It’s very unlikely that they will ever be able to predict them, we have tried multiple ways but none have been successful scientists used to think we were getting close to being able to predict exactly when a quake will happen but they now know it will be a long time until we will know when they will happen.
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